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Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English in the University of Scranton Department of English and Theatre, where she teaches courses on Romantic and Victorian literature, science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, environmental literature and climate fiction, comics and visual studies, and other aspects of English language and literature. She is also a coeditor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her research lies at the intersections of British literature and culture, comics and visual studies, digital humanities, and book history. She is particularly interested in the imagetextuality of Victorian periodicals, especially illustrated serialized fiction. She is currently working on several projects related to illustrated Victorian periodicals and imagetexts.
Madeline received her PhD in English from the University of Florida and is an alumna of the University of Dundee’s MLitt in Comics Studies program. Her doctoral dissertation argues that serialized Victorian fiction is inherently imagetextual, and proposes that examining literary texts in their periodical presentations offers insights into paratextual and bitextual meaning-making. Her MLitt thesis examines a broad selection of illustrations and imagetext adaptations of The War of the Worlds through the lens of major international conflicts. She earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Puget Sound with focuses in British literature and visual rhetoric, and minored in Asian studies with a Japanese language emphasis.
